MUMBAI: Corporators on Monday chose to stick mum within the civic status committee assembly over the BMC’s proposal to award a garbage shipping contract to Kaviraj MBB, alleged to be the new avatar of a company blacklisted within the 2015 desilting scam. Last week, they had raised a stink over the proposal.
At Monday’s assembly, the Rs 7-crore proposal to move south Mumbai’s garbage dropped at the Mahalaxmi refuse transfer centre to the Deonar dumping flooring by way of mini compactors was once handed within mins.
Opposition birthday party leader within the BMC Ravi Raja and NCP birthday party leader Rakhi Jadhav raised questions about why did BJP corporators, who had so many reservations over the proposal final week, now not say a phrase at the assembly. “The proposal was once handed discreetly,” stated Raja.
BJP corporator Prabhakar Shinde, who had sought a answer on the issue on May nine, was once now not provide at the assembly. He later instructed TOI, “Ideally, the proposal should now not had been mentioned when the corporator who had raised a number of queries over it was once now not provide. My questions nonetheless stay, like when the existing contractor is already preventing a prison fight with the BMC, what measures have the civic administration taken on this regard.”
BJP corporator Makrand Narwekar, who had additionally objected to the proposal final week and was once provide at Monday’s assembly, alleged that the Shiv Sena handed the proposal “surreptitiously”. “Almost at the finish of the assembly, the proposal was once handed without any dialogue on the matter. The Shiv Sena obviously appears to be favouring the contractor,” stated Narwekar.
The civic administration had just lately given Kaviraj MBB Waste Management the contract to move garbage from the Gorai garbage transfer centre to Deonar, Mulund and Kanjurmarg dumping grounds. This time too, the company was once the bottom bidder, stated officials from the civic cast waste control department.
At Monday’s assembly, the Rs 7-crore proposal to move south Mumbai’s garbage dropped at the Mahalaxmi refuse transfer centre to the Deonar dumping flooring by way of mini compactors was once handed within mins.
Opposition birthday party leader within the BMC Ravi Raja and NCP birthday party leader Rakhi Jadhav raised questions about why did BJP corporators, who had so many reservations over the proposal final week, now not say a phrase at the assembly. “The proposal was once handed discreetly,” stated Raja.
BJP corporator Prabhakar Shinde, who had sought a answer on the issue on May nine, was once now not provide at the assembly. He later instructed TOI, “Ideally, the proposal should now not had been mentioned when the corporator who had raised a number of queries over it was once now not provide. My questions nonetheless stay, like when the existing contractor is already preventing a prison fight with the BMC, what measures have the civic administration taken on this regard.”
BJP corporator Makrand Narwekar, who had additionally objected to the proposal final week and was once provide at Monday’s assembly, alleged that the Shiv Sena handed the proposal “surreptitiously”. “Almost at the finish of the assembly, the proposal was once handed without any dialogue on the matter. The Shiv Sena obviously appears to be favouring the contractor,” stated Narwekar.
The civic administration had just lately given Kaviraj MBB Waste Management the contract to move garbage from the Gorai garbage transfer centre to Deonar, Mulund and Kanjurmarg dumping grounds. This time too, the company was once the bottom bidder, stated officials from the civic cast waste control department.
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